Motivational Quotes

Business

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

- Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Best Quotes about Business

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

10.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

11.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

12.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

13.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

14.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

15.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

16.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

17.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

18.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

20.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

21.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

22.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

23.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

24.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

25.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

26.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

28.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

29.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

30.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

31.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

34.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

35.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

36.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

37.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

39.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

42.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

44.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

45.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

46.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

47.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.